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Apple A13 Bionic vs Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 56 %

Apple A13 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 22 %

Apple A13 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

1,710

12C / 12T · 4.06 GHz

3,152

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

3,599

12C / 12T · 3.80 GHz

15,619

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

1,336

12C / 12T · 4.06 GHz

2,314

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

3,429

12C / 12T · 3.80 GHz

15,235

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A13

691

Apple M3 Pro (18 Core)

6,390

AI performance (NPU)

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

6.0 TOPS

12C / 12T · 0.70 GHz

35.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
Family	Apple A series (27)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple A13 (1)	Apple M3 (6)
Architecture	A13 (Lightning / Thunder)	M3
Technology	7 nm	3 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A12 Bionic	Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)
Successor	Apple A14 Bionic	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	12 / 12
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Lightning 2.65 GHz	6x Lobos P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Thunder 1.80 GHz	6x Lobos E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	36.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
GPU name	Apple A13	Apple M3 Pro (18 Core)
GPU frequency	1.35 GHz	0.39 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	16 / 256	288 / 2304
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB	36 GB
Technology	7 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q3/2019	Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 6 TOPS	16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (153.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4 GB	36 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
TDP	6 W	35 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions		Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q3/2019	Q4/2023
Release price
Documents

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A13 Bionic is 3.8 stars (184 ratings), while Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU) has received 4.8 stars (291 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
12C / 12T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★